It gets tiring to write Piefed/Lemmy/Mbin to call our part of the Fediverse, is Threadiverse now the accepted term?

[recursive_recursion@piefed.ca]

I use Fediverse as threads is tied to meta

[a_union_of_kobolds@lemmy.world]

I get that. It's like every political conspiracy is a "-gate". But its a useful shorthand, and thats what the term needs.

Every time I explain it to someone, I roll my eyes a little at those terms, but thats what it's called... It sounds so marketing. Trying to tell someone "join the Fediverse" feels like selling a cult, a little, lol

I may ask my wife if she'll let me set up something for her to scroll other than TikTok, though. She's not the type to dive into new stuff like this without good reason, but if I just go "here's your app, all set up with stuff you'll generally enjoy!" maybe it'll drag her off that godawful site.

[julian@activitypub.space]

Sure, although those terms are buzzwords only, not marketing speak. Like blogiverse, definitely not marketing.

The marketing term the Social Web Foundation wants to put forward is "Open Social Web", but that encompasses more than the threaded softwares (includes Mastodon, Peertube, etc.)

[blaze@lemmy.zip]

Gemini is both the Google AI and the network protocol, it seems clear which one you’re referring to depending on context

[flamekebab@piefed.social]

Arguably the context is very similar - it makes it seem like Threads is part of the "Threadiverse". AFAIK it's not? The fact that I don't know is rather telling.

[veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Just call it Fediverse.

Fediverse can be part. Fediverse can be all. Fediverse is the all that federates with the bit. Fediverse ought. Fediverse will be. It's even on Poob. Poob will federate it for you. Poob will federate it for you.

[blaze@lemmy.zip]

It doesn't make sense to tell someone "Welcome to the Fediverse" when they join Piefed or Lemmy as they can't follow Mastodon or Sharkey users

[blaze@lemmy.zip]

!piefed_meta@piefed.social has nothing to do with the Meta company

[flamekebab@piefed.social]

I, uh, don't know what you're trying to say. I was talking about support for the ActivityPub protocol.

[bonktheannoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Except that, apparently you can? A recent post I made on Lemmy had replies from Mastodon accounts afaict

[revan343@lemmy.ca]

Interacting with Lemmy threads from Mastodon is easy, the inverse not so much

[julian@activitypub.space]

Lemmy and Mastodon can interact (yay federation!) but you can't follow microblog users from Lemmy.

Up until recently, communities couldn't follow other communities, because it's just not a "thing" Lemmy or Piefed do. Users follow communities, yeah?

Except NodeBB tries to have communities follow communities. :)

[snoopy@tarte.nuage-libre.fr]

Yep only Mbin achieve that :3

[julian@activitypub.space]

NodeBB too :blush:

[blaze@lemmy.zip]

I was referring to this comment ( https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/21052151 )

And the word meta itself is used for meta communities on the Threadiverse which have nothing to do with Meta the company. Words existed before companies took them.

[hubertmanne@piefed.social]

I mean I call the fediverse the federation so I guess I should call it the threaderation

[julian@activitypub.space]

The United Threaderation of Instances?

[flamekebab@piefed.social]

So you didn't mean to reply to me in the first place?

[blaze@lemmy.zip]

I did, I was making a comparison how comments words such as "meta" and "threads" shouldn't be owned by corporations

[flamekebab@piefed.social]

Whilst I agree that they shouldn't, it's a fact that Threads exists and, as far as I know, is not part of the Threadiverse but is in an adjacent space. To the point where I personally, someone involved in the Fediverse, am not sure whether it communicates with the "Threadiverse". Mastodon does, for example.

If we were talking about a family of phones called "Threads" then that wouldn't be all that confusing, but when it's another social app then it's a mess.